Location: Christopher Columbus Park, 105 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Massachusetts
(near the Long Wharf Marriott on the waterfront - Aquarium stop on the
MBTA Blue Line and a short walk from Haymarket on the Orange Line).

There will be no parade, no marching band, no military equipment, no
guns and drums, no Air Force fly-overs.

There will be veterans
and supporters who have lost friends and loved ones. Veterans who know
the horrors of war and the pain and anguish of loss. There will be
friends and families of soldiers, remembering their loved ones. There
will be Iraqi Refugees who have suffered terrible losses and will join
with us as we remember and show respect for their loss.

There
will be flowers dropped into the harbor for each fallen U.S. soldier
from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Flowers will also be also be dropped
into the harbor remembering the loss of Iraqi family and friends.

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About Us

The Smedley D. Butler Brigade is a chapter of Veterans For Peace in the Boston, Massachusetts area. We meet once a month in Cambridge and are active in the local antiwar movement. We are named after Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, the most decorated Marine in history, who famously said "war is a racket".

Followers

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others

(a) To increase public awareness of the costs of war.(b) To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations(c) To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons(d) To seek justice for veterans and victims of war(e) To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.

To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.